Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)

J.T.A.

Identifier: 005433
Dates: 1917
Type of Entity: Corporate Body

Dates of Existence

1917 - Present

History

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency - former Jewish Correspondence Bureau - was created by the journalist Jacob Landau with the purpose of collecting and disseminating news among and affecting the Jewish communities of the diaspora.

Rules and Conventions

EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0

Sources

The Jewish Virtual Library (retrieved on 29/10/2017) http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-telegraphic-agency-jta

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1. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (10)

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Antisemitism Questionnaires Cuestionario antisemitismo
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn558247
- English
- 1974-1976
- 5,512 digital images, PDF
- Updated 7 months ago
A survey on antisemitism conducted by José Moskovits in the 1970s by mailing a questionnaire on antisemitism to almost 5,000 dignitaries in 150 countries worldwide. The questionnaire was mailed to heads-of-state and other leading politicians, authors, journalists, scientists, artists, doctors, as well as corporate, military, civic, and religious leaders. Mr. Moskovits received almost 1,000 filled-out questionnaires back, often with additional letter responses attached. The purpose of the survey was a book to be edited by Dr. Asher Mibashan (1914-2005), the Buenos Aires bureau chief of the J...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), Paris Jüdische Telegraphen-Agentur (JTA), Paris (Fond 674)
1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn599813
- English
- 1918-1940
- 4 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm 2,525 digital images, JPEG
- Updated 7 months ago
The bulk of the collection constitutes copies of international bulletins published in Berlin, London, Prague, Paris, Palestine and Switzerland. It includes articles, accounts, reports, correspondence, and newspaper clippings on the situation of the Jewish population of various countries, on the activities of Zionist and other Jewish organizations, and on holding of Zionist congress. Contains a review of activities of the Zionist organization Haavara that transferred Jewish money from Germany to Palestine; reports of the Committee of Jewish Delegations, Bucharest, about the legal situation o...
Records of the Berlin Gestapo Geheimes Staatspolizeiamt (Gestapa) Berlin (Fond 501)
1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn599257
- English
- 1933-1945
- 6 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm 7,661 digital images, JPEG
- Updated 7 months ago
Contains the surveillance files on communists, social-democratic, anti-fascist, and Jewish organizations; reports on “unreliable” persons and on masonic lodges; police surveillance on activities of organization outside Germany; clippings of German and foreign newspapers and journal concerning the situation in Germany. Includes also records related to the Zionist movements in Germany: correspondence of the Reich and Prussian Minister of the Interior and of the Prussian Gestapo Office with the Zionist Federation of Germany (Zionistische Vereinigung für Deutschland); reports by the Jewish Tel...
Records of the Geneva Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1945-1954
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn533246
- English
- 1945-1954
- 748 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm digital images,
- Updated 7 months ago
Records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC), Geneva Office, relating to global overseas operations in the immediate post-World War II (WWII) period: global rescue and relief efforts, primarily focused on resettling Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors around the world; facilitating the renewal of Jewish life in Europe; rebuilding Jewish communal institutions; and providing sustaining aid to the remnants of Jewish communities worldwide. This collection include: correspondence; committee and board meeting minutes; field reports from worldwide staff; budgets; income a...
Records of the Istanbul Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1937-1949
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn533286
- English
- 1937-1949
- 17 microfilm reels, 35 mm
- Updated 7 months ago
Records include: correspondence with Jewish communities throughout Turkey, Romania, and Palestine; extensive documentation regarding shipments of food packages and other supplies to concentration camps such as Theresienstadt and Bergen-Belsen (including a postcard sent by Rabbi Leo Baeck, the renowned German scholar, from Theresienstadt acknowledging receipt of a AJJDC care package); cables and news releases; lists of survivors, including thousands of files from the Central Location Index; wartime testimonies; and correspondence regarding Joel Brand’s and Rudolf Kasztner’s negotiations in 1...
Rundschreiben from the Frankfurt am Main office of the United Restitution Organization
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn503546
- English
- 1961-1970
- 129 microfiche, 3 linear ft.,
- Updated 7 months ago
Collection consist of thermofax and mimeograph copies of United Restitution Organization (URO) Rundschreiben from the Frankfurt am Main office, 1961-1970; miscellaneous printed and mimeograph memorandums, statistical reports, etc. some are from the URO office in Berlin.
Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Berlin Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Berlinie (Sygn.475)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn557943
- English
- 1919-1939
- 2,331 digital images, PDF
- Updated 7 months ago
Correspondence, passport applications, passports, and consular letters relating to legal matters of Polish minorities living in Germany, and about Zionist organizations in Germany.
Victor Bienstock papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn551039
- English
- 1935-1984
- boxes oversize boxes book enclosure 6 3 1
- Updated 7 months ago
The Victor Bienstock papers document the pre-war and wartime work of journalist Victor Bienstock, as he served as an overseas correspondent for the Overseas News Agency, a subsidiary of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The collection contains materials relating to the on-the-ground coverage of wartime events from various locations (London, Cairo, Rome, and France) during World War II, with a particular focus on stories related to Palestine, refugees, and the fate of Jews in Nazi occupied lands. The Victor Bienstock papers contains travel materials; ephemera; correspondence; diaries; an unpubl...
World Union of Jewish Students, Vienna Weltverband der jüdischen Studentenschaft, Wien (Fond 1230)
1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn615086
- English
- 1924-1936
- 3 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm 3,798 digital images, JPEG
- Updated 7 months ago
This collection contains office records of this international student organization. Included are protocols of general meetings and executive board meetings, correspondence, policy statements, proposals, and position papers to be presented at international conferences, press clippings, copies of an English-language publication “The Monthly News Sheet”; and a number of English-language records from the International Student Service. The collection contains correspondence with the Jewish Unions from other countries on holding conferences, uniting Jewish student’s organization into one single u...
Zionist Organizations Organizacje Syjonistyczne (Sygn. 333)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn59327
- English
- 1927-1950
- 74,146 digital images, PDF
- Updated 7 months ago
Contains documentation of the Zionist parties and organizations that operated in Poland after the war. Includes organizational files, protocols of council meetings, correspondence, applications for emigration, personal files, materials for publication, bulletins, and files of regional branch offices of the following organizations: the Ichud, Ha-Noar Ha-Cijoni, WIZO-Women`s International Zionist Organization, Organization of General Zionists (Organization of General Zionists– Hitachdut Cijonim Klaliim) and Ha-Owed Ha-Cijoni, Jewish Zionist-Socialist Labor Party Poalej Syjon C.S. Hitachdut, G...

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